Work is simply paid slavery

It's not slavery. You can walk away anytime. Slavery is involuntary. You downplay the evil of slavery by comparing a job to it. It sounds more like you want someone to pay your freight than simply finding freedom.

I have thought about this A LOT. Honestly, I think that the Amish have it about right (sans their restrictive religion). They live off the land, they are self-sufficient, they work together building homes. They are our example, to a point, I believe. We need to start doing this, and screw the gov.

I think we need to do away with money and go to a bartering system. Money is the root of all evil, and for the longest of times, I have wished that there was no such thing. I wish that there was no government, because with it, we are apparently slaves to their wishes, not our own.

Work....all that is for is to pay for the garbage food that we can buy in the stores, material things to keep us satisfied, if only for a short time, and pay the government so that they can live their free lifestyle, like we all wish we could do. They got all the power and money, and do you think that they hate their lives? No...they live peachy, exciting lives, jetting here and there, enjoying grand vacations, having more money than they know what to do with while us, the real people in the world struggle and wish we were dead rather than going through this slavery crap.

Our work should be taking care of our own homes, our own crops, our own familes, our own lives, and then when all is done, we can also share in our bounties with others. For instance, sharing crops from gardens, or fruits from trees, services such as woodworking, or metal working, or whatever. These things are basics of life.

True life isn't sitting in front of the tv gorging on food, drinking beer, or whathaveyou. Real, true existing comes from working for yourself, and when the day is over, you feel good about it. Back in the day before all this electronic crap came into existance, life seemed more easy going, a lot less stress. These new-fangled gadgets that make our life "easier" truly aren't. In fact, they are doing the opposite and enslaving people further.

We need to get back to life, living from the earth, sharing, loving, and communicating with each other.

Just dawned on me as im getting ready for night shift. are we nothing more than paid pieces of meat, worker ants.... im wasting away and breaking my back for green pieces of paper. i want to be free god damn it ! Dont you ?

100% agree. I am trying to think of ways to break myself free from the grind and become a free man while still being able to feed my family.

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Over-grown children who don't like having to work for a living.

that's the illusion fucktard. if you don't work and earn the paper, you won't be able to afford anything, because the government claims everything their property/possesion. at least over in here in europe. you are not allowed to go and hunt your food without paying for a permission. you are not allowed to collect anything from nature without a permission.

now if that isn't slavery ... you downplay a job like it isn't slavery. only a small percentage are able to work as what they actually want but the majority hast to accept any kind of job in order to survive. every day the same bullshit for the most time of your life. what beautiful freedom ....

^ This, but the problem is that today we work for companies, pure business, we don't really contribuite to the 'community'.


The first goal for companies is to make profits, not to help the community. This is a completely wrong approach and we have these conflicting interests over and over.

We should be doing some work to really help our communities, to feel it. We're not happy this way, we need to surpase this system and create a new one. A system that really helps us all, that allow us to evolve as a species, not to compete with each other.

We are totally capable of doing it, we need to be educated, to understand what's better if our goal is to construct efficient societies. There's a 'status quo' that won't allow it of course. They fear changes, we all do.

Just think for one second. How many people live in Europe and how much (public) natural resources is there? The point is, if everyone had a right to all of nature the game and wild plants would be gone in a matter of days. It must be regulated in order to be protected.

Some here in the US say the same thing as you...if things get bad they will just hunt deer or rabbits. When 100's of thousands of people are scavaging the land, it will soon be gone and then we all starve.

If no one worked for companies there would be little manufacturing. Imagine one person assembling a car, or building a house.

Every person's employment (labor) contributes to the pool of resources we all use, resources being products and services. If some don't contribute then other must contribute more or the pool will be reduced. We usually get payment for our contribution which we can then exchange to make withdrawals from the pool of resources.

It is a good and noble thing to give to your community. But without people working in orginazations (companies for example) we would not have many of the modern conveniences we now enjoy.

Which is better?

No, a JOB is paid slavery. Working is fine and it's a survival necessity but you have to be smart and 'work' for yourself.
If you're a wage slave you're fucked, so yes I agree in principle but we do all need to work. It's a natural law.

Silly, in the past, thats when everyone was a rancher, or farmer. And they grew their own food and animals.

Of course with majority not having those skills and livestock and land anymore. Then your scenario would come true.

I was talking about the current model of companies, the ones built only for make profits. I'm not against manufacturing, it's an essential part of every modern industry. I'm against the philosophy. We should be working in colaboration, no competition. It makes no sense at all considering we're completely rational beings. Why to compete each other instead sharing and working towards a common objective, to help us all and improve our societies?

The problem is that we were educated in a way that we need to earn our money and fight every day in order to garantee our survival. That's just nonsense, stupidity. Individual perspective at extreme levels.

No, a JOB is paid slavery. Working is fine and it's a survival necessity but you have to be smart and 'work' for yourself.
If you're a wage slave you're fucked, so yes I agree in principle but we do all need to work. It's a natural law.